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<p>Favre is 38 years old. Wouldn’t it be better for him to leave Green Bay as a legend rather than coming back as a second string quarter back for some other team?</p>
<p>This is a HUGE topic of discussion in my house right now. H and D1 want to go up to Green Bay for one of the Sunday fan rallies. I don’t blame Green Bay one bit for holding to their guns and refusing to make him first string if he returned. The world doesn’t revolve around him. However, by the fans acting this way, it makes it incredibly awkward for Rodgers. </p>
<p>He needs to take the consequences for making what now looks like a hasty decision. I still don’t sense he’s 100% certain he wants to come back. I suspect he’s going through a bit of withdrawl with all the summer camps around the corner.</p>
<p>By the way, we went through a similar situation in Chicago when Michael Jordan retired, then returned, then played for another team… the comebacks are never what people expect. However, the difference here is that Jordan did retire… he missed seasons before returning. Favre, it seems, is not interested in taking some time away.</p>
<p>Joe Namath played for the Jets, then did his final year with the Rams. Joe Montana played for the 49ers for 14 years, then did two years with the Chiefs. It happens.</p>
<p>Also big discussion at our house where my 16 year old S has considered Brett his “hero” since he was 3 years old (my son that is!). </p>
<p>It’s a tough call. Some talk indicates he was forced to make a retirement decision before he was ready to. It’s awful awkward for Rodgers. It amazes me how the fans in GB have rallied around Favre! Talk about pressure for Rodgers - he had enough pressure before all this erupted - now, even worse. If he has a crappy first game, the fans are going to be ROARING in that stadium. </p>
<p>This is definitely one of those “we’ll never know all the facts” situations. I hate that Brett who has mostly been so highly regarded by fans and sports professionals is now having some mean statements made about him. That is the media though - one day you are king, the next a pauper. </p>
<p>My son has been working all summer to earn enough to purchase tickets and a trip to Green Bay for the Sept. 8 game to retire Brett’s jersey - glad he didn’t buy any tickets yet! </p>
<p>Don’t know how this will all play out…</p>
<p>It amazes me too about the Favre fans. From what I’ve read, at the local rallies they have only had about 1/2 as many turn out as expected. I really would have expected far more to have been there to support him. Are they fair-weather fans? Or has Brett overestimated his appeal?
It it sure awkward for Rodgers. Brett’s flip-flopping certainly demonstrates he is not a team first or fans first player.
Quite unscientific, but at my workplace few are talking about him. Of those who are most feel he was an idiot to have cried that he was retiring, then want in, then want out, then maybe want back in if conditions were just right. Maybe if I lived nearer to Lambeau the feeling would be stronger, but for the most part fans here that I have come across are ambivalent at best.</p>
<p>If you go back to some of his post-press conference interviews, (for instance his Letterman appearance) he always seemed to hesitate when asked “is retirement for real?”. </p>
<p>While I have to ponder all that is happening and wonder what really is/has going/gone on, he remains a stellar person IMO and a great athletic role model. </p>
<p>As I always tell my kids when they are having trouble seeing another point of view - put yourself in the other person’s shoes. While this whole method may be questionable, I don’t totally discount him for retracting a decision. </p>
<p>I believe he is a “life goes on” person. He wants to play football - it’s what he knows - and so though we as Packers fans can’t imagine it, he may be willing to play elsewhere. We’ll see how this all plays out. In the meantime, right now, the media is loving to hate him. :(</p>
<p>My mom has a saying when my dad keeps waffling on a decision:</p>
<p>“Either poop or get off the pot.”</p>
<p>I can’t imagine the rest of the team is loving this. The selfless thing to do is to make a decision and stick with it. The selfish thing to do is think only about yourself and not how your decision affects the planning and preparation of the coaches and your teammates. The whole thing has greatly reduced my admiration for Mr Favre.</p>
<p>He may be a “life goes on” person, but to me he appears to be quite the opposite. He appears to be a “lets go back in time” person. His current attitude appears to be saying- let’s pretend I didn’t cry during my retirement speech. Let’s pretend I didn’t retire at all. I want to be starting QB for GB.</p>
<p>Isn’t he playing a childs game?- Its my ball and we’ll play my way or I’ll take my ball and go home. He quit the pack. He decided he’d come back and honor the last yr of his contract. Not happy with how they told him he’d be used, he said he quit. Now he says if you won’t play me my way, I’ll go somewhere else.
I will certainly agree he is an excellent athletic role model, I wouldn’t go beyond that…</p>